Manifestation Recipe for Disaster?

[VioletFlame]

Hello everyone. I've been contemplating something for quite some time now. So my father definitely exhibits major signs of a Stage Blue personality. He can be rather xenophobic and hypersensitive to the thought of terrorism (except only blindly and ignorantly terrified by terrorism existing in this country alone.) To me, he lives in so much fear of suffering that it only seems to counteract what he truly wants, what everybody wants, peace & happiness. Living in constant worry, panic and fear over potential attacks and catastrophes only brings him closer to suffering and less close to living. He follows political talk show people and podcasts as if they were his gods and saints, politics for him has virtually become his religion, which is sadly the closest I think he'll ever get to "religion", which is a diametrically opposed domain in my eyes and it's the last thing he ought to be focusing on when it comes to his sanity and peace of mind. So here's where my theory comes in.

At his house, he has assembled this separate "market" thing in the basement in which he spends more money on this emergency supply of canned food than of legitimate things he and his 90 year old mother requires on a weekly basis, but then complains about having no money. He is so lost in the grasping of comfort and luxury that the very idea of something coming to remove that from him and his precious country is not to be accepted, never does he go deep and ask himself why, only blames and stigmatizes outside factors instead. So in Witchcraft, when one is casting a spell, or preparing a ritual, one starts with a clear Intention on what they are aiming to manifest. One will proceed to hold that Intention in their mind and in the form of visualization, imagining it, feeling it and sensing it in full detail. Theoretically, I believe my father's fixated ritual of accumulating food, drinks and emergency supplies is him basically casting an accidental or unconscious spell, so to speak. I have witnessed him reciting powerful words while preparing this spell, also cursing political incantations while performing this ritual. As he's gathering and stacking all his ingredients on the shelves for his alleged prophetic occurrence. It's almost as though he wishes upon it, the idea energizes him, and it enrages him but I think there is a massive fear and paranoia behind the act. His emotions are powerful, so it's not like his tone was dull, he was raising his energy, a negative, low consciousness energy, but an energy which I witness only coming back to him in return, as a result. A positive result really, if he was only able to become conscious of the fact that that's all he's really doing is Willing negative consequences to happen to himself, until that one day actually meets his vision, then it's having positive results. He's not deliberately performing a ritual to help him HEAL from the torturous fear of destruction and War, to detach from that fear but instead in a way he is preparing himself as if his perceived calamity already happened and is happening, which is the direct process of manifestation. If this ritual is helping him stay secure and internally safe, which it doesn't seem like it is, then perhaps he is manifesting that day itself in which he WILL NEED those things to survive. I'm 21, he is in his early 60s, and still kind of stuck there, exhibiting many post-psychological symptoms as a citizen during the Vietnam War.

Edited November 9, 2018 by VioletFlame
Linguistic Perfectionism

[Joseph Maynor]

The proper attitude is compassion for their suffering and the suffering they cause others.  But it takes a lot of Enlightenment to realize how this can be possible.  Ego wants to make Experience personal, and that's a hard thing to see through.  Nothing in Experience is a threat to you.  This is something that takes a lot of Enlightenment to see too.  But that doesn't mean that you stay passive -- be assertive but be incredibly polite about it too.  See, you gotta mix assertiveness with politeness or respect, otherwise you'll get labeled as an asshole.  And realize that you're no better than they are in the sense that you too, perhaps in different ways, cause yourself suffering and others suffering too!  That keeps you humble.  We all cause suffering to ourselves and to others due to our own ignorance.  So, compassion and truth-telling needs to extend to ourselves and to others.  You need to call yourself on your own shit before you call others on their shit.

Edited November 9, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[VioletFlame]

I have not shared my personal thoughts about this with him because he gets too volatile and defensive when others try to give him advice, or share their own opinion. I also don't want to hurt him. I wish he would allow others to help him not live in so much hate and misery but he's not willing to be open to these kinds of things. I accept some some people aren't willing to change for themselves and for the world around them. 

Edited November 9, 2018 by VioletFlame